Sid Morrison, Chair Born in the Yakima Valley, Sid Morrison earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Washington State...Read More

Chris Liu is the director of the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services. He has also served in several leadership positions in....Read More

Dan Dixon has been named the chief community engagement officer for Providence Health and Services. In this new role, he is ....Read More

Ron Erickson has more than 35 years of experience as a manager, attorney and senior level executive leading technology, consumer....Read More

Blind alleys in the state budget on college tuition

"The state budget still says my school, Central Washington University, is funded for 8,808 students, but we’re actually serving closer to 10,000. Believe it or not, comprehensive universities such as CWU, Western Washington University and Eastern Washington University receive less funding per student, about $2,560, than community colleges do, which receive $2,850 per student, and less than half of what the state spends per K-12 student at $6,400. The state provides about the same amount per student to comprehensive universities as it did in 1991, when a gallon of gas was $1.23 and a movie ticket cost $4," writes CWU Trustee Ron Erickson in a Seattle Times guest editorial.